whatever i've done to my shoulder feels extremely unpleasant. 

( or, how my own brain likes to eat itself at inopportune moments. )

• i have this obsession with pesto lately. 
• my garage inexplicably smells like cupcake frosting. 
• my mom corrected my spelling of montreal today in an e-mail subject heading. she added the accent. this is why i love / hate / am my mother.

so, i'm listening to the sunset tree by the mountain goats for the first time in what might honestly be years.

i think i started listening to the mountain goats my junior year of college after checking out a few sample songs of theirs on r5 productions' website. something about the song "this year" lodged itself in my heart. the chorus (i am gonna ( Read more... )

most of the things i do i'm merely mediocre (at best) at.

my question is... why do i keep bothering? 

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i am also freaked out about the following things: 

• scrimmaging with the vets tomorrow.
• potentially being teamed in exactly one week. 
  • potentially ending up on a team i don't feel like i belong on, which i'm pretty sure won't happen, because BDD is awesome and has been nothing but awesome and sooner or later i have to stop lugging around this new ( Read more... )

( or, how i came to cry in public at the new england aquarium. )

 
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this is pretty clever.

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